Teen charged with Plymouth plot communicated with Finnish shooter:
No this isn’t a repeat. The link between Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen and would be school shooter Dillon Cossey has been confirmed.
“He recognized the screen name and recalled having contact by email,” said J. David Farrell, who represents Cossey, 14, of Plymouth Valley.
Farrell said Cossey was “very distressed” to learn that Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, of Tuusula, Finland, had gunned down six students, a nurse and the principal at his high school, located about 30 miles north of Helsinki. Auvinen then killed himself.
Cossey told Farrell that Auvinen “gave no indication he was going to do anything violent,” and that Cossey “offered nothing in the way of encouragement” to pursue violence.
The teens shared an interest in a video game called “Hitman,” Farrell said, adding that they may have also had a mutual obsession with Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the students responsible for the Columbine massacre.
Farrell said he believed more information about the time and extent of the communication would be available tomorrow.
When these mutants congregate they share ideas and encourage each other to commit these acts of violence. For years I’ve been trying to get website hosts to shut these kinds of groups down. They haven’t listened yet. I wonder if they will now. Maybe it’s time to re-start my crusade. Who’s with me?
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